Table 2 Amount of extracted DNA and RNA, NGS success rate
From: Utility of bronchoscopically obtained frozen cytology pellets for next-generation sequencing
|  | Frozen Cytology Pellet (n = 75) | Frozen Tissue (n = 57) | ORR (95%CI) | P value |
Extracted amount (ng/mL)Median [IQR] | ||||
 DNA | 60 [2–100] | 40 [3–70] |  | 0.34 |
 RNA | 10 [9.5–30] | 10 [5–29] |  | 0.4 |
NGS success rate (%) | ||||
 DNA sequencing | 97.3% | 98.2% | 1.5 (0.08–90.45) | 0.99 |
 RNA sequencing | 76.0% | 77.2% | 1.16 (0.47–2.93) | 0.99 |
|  | Frozen Cytology Pellet (n = 31) | Frozen Tissue (n = 3) |  | P value |
EBUS-TBNA NGS success rate (%) | ||||
 DNA sequencing | 100.0% | 100.0% |  |  |
 RNA sequencing | 83.9% | 33.3% | 0.11 (0.002–2.4) | 0.1 |